A Conscious Universe

[bennyboy]

Lets take your game example. If all your experiences were from a game, would it be rational to think the game is real? Would it be pratical?

Yes. The only real question, in terms of science, would be whether there was enough consistency in that virtual world to make observations, form hypotheses, and do experiments. And, in MMORPGs, some players very much do do this, sometimes discovering aspects of the virtual world which the designers didn't intend.

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How do you feel this would establish that the universe resolves down to physical reality, about which ideas are merely a description, rather than ideas, of which matter is merely an expression?

Because the ideas are confined to --- and totally depend on --- the health of the brain in which they occur?

I think you are talking about the ideas a brain forms and has, rather then the kind of elemental or universal ideas which could be "under the hood," and which are the ones I refer in my flavor of idealism. I don't think the human world is an expression of human ideas. In fact, I see a kind of trinity (eek scary word!): there's an underlying idealistic reality, matter as we see it is an expression of that reality, and then THROUGH the matter (rather than about it) we infer that underyling idealistic reality.

I'm not sure if this makes sense? I could say more but I don't want to get tl;dr.

@Pizz-atheist: I'm not ignoring you, but will have to answer your post a little later.